(n.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Leonid Petrov, an expert on the North at the Australian National University, said of the North's statement: "It's a good sign, they are prepared to negotiate, but they are demanding an exorbitant and impermissibly high price … The game will continue."
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Silva had been identified, along with Agüero, as City’s main threat by Leonid Slutsky, the CSKA manager, and it was the Spaniard who slipped the ball through deftly for Dzeko to beat the offside trap.
(3) This autumn the Blavatnik School of Government (BSG) is to move into a new, purpose-built home at Oxford University as a result of USSR-born oligarch Leonid Blavatnik’s £75m donation in 2010.
(4) Leonid Petrov of the Australian National University noted that if the news turned out to be true, its implications remained unclear.
(5) Even the CSKA Moscow manager Leonid Slutsky (come, come, let's not stoop that low) says the pitch is about as good as the club's recent results - their last 10 games in all competitions look like this: P10 W4 D1 L5.
(6) In recent years it has become the world’s largest producer of lemons, an industry that employs 50,000 people in the region including Pereyra’s father, Leonides.
(7) He has already outlasted Leonid Brezhnev (18 years) and is closing in fast on comrade Stalin (a whopping 31).
(8) The prospect of two more terms for Putin exacerbating creeping social and economic stagnation prompted comparisons with the long rule of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
(9) Russia Euro 2016 team guide: tactics, key players and expert predictions Read more A number of old faces remain – Berezutsky, his twin brother, Vasili, the goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, the centre-back Sergei Ignashevich and the captain Roman Shirokov among them – but it has been a miserable period since that freewheeling summer in central Europe and even the flickers of optimism that rose early in the reign of Leonid Slutsky, who turned their qualifying campaign round when he first replaced Fabio Capello, have been dampened in recent weeks.
(10) On Thursday evening it was announced that Yanukovych would give a press conference on Friday afternoon in the southern Russian city of Rostov on Don – contradicting earlier claims that he was in the Moscow region staying at a top government sanatorium that has previously hosted officials such as Leonid Brezhnev and Boris Yeltsin.
(11) "They are using this opportunity to scapegoat Uncle Jang by relegating responsibility for all policy failures," said Leonid Petrov of the Australian National University.
(12) Twenty years of Leonid Brezhnev followed, during which the clock was turned back, if not to full-scale Stalinism, at least part of the way.
(13) Mike Flynn might be done – but Trump's nightmare has just begun | Richard Wolffe Read more The Russian MP Leonid Slutsky, head of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of parliament, said the resignation was forced, “provocative” and a “negative signal for the mending of Russian-American dialogue”.
(14) He was accompanied by Leonid Slutsky, the head of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, as well as MPs from Belgium, Italy and Serbia, according to Russian media.
(15) Judging from the amount of logistical and financial support they got, it looks likely they acted with at least a tacit understanding that this was sanctioned.” A few days after the would-be coup, a former intelligence officer, Leonid Reshetnikov, who ran a hawkish research institute in Moscow, was relieved of his duties by Putin.
(16) Leonid Petrov is an expert on North Korea at the Australian National University, not the University of Sydney as we said in the original version.
(17) Leonid Slutsky’s players started to take better care of the ball and, for the first time, put England under sustained pressure, attacking the end where their bare-chested fans were becoming increasingly vociferous.
(18) I feel, with my football intelligence, I can play there and I can further my career as well.” Rooney was asked about suggestions by members of Russia’s coaching staff, and some of Leonid Slutsky’s players , that he is not the player he once was, with the question prompting a prickly response.
(19) Offering a slab, Leonid Bikadanov, 43, said he was a member of the people's militia.
(20) Sergei Udaltsov, leader of the socialist Left Front and a major voice in the wave of street protests that shook Russia in 2011-13, was convicted of planning the unrest at the protest, along with Leonid Razvozzhayev, an activist and aide to opposition MP Ilya Ponomaryov, the only deputy to vote against Russia's annexation of Crimea.
Meteorite
Definition:
(n.) A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aerolite.
Example Sentences:
(1) The toll was slight because the 20-metre-wide meteorite exploded so high, more than 20km above the ground.
(2) We’ve gathered a few creative intergalactic lesson plans below – including edible meteorites and studying real lunar rocks.
(3) "It was rather easy to find fragments in the first days after the meteorite fell, because the chunks left holes in the snow," Grokhovsky told the Guardian.
(4) The amino acid composition and the pyrolyzable organic content of the Antarctic Allan Hills meteorite (ALHA 77306.9 and ALHA 77306.17) was examined.
(5) Short of sending a spacecraft or astronaut to the red planet to haul back rocks, Martian meteorites are the next best thing for scientists seeking to better understand how Earth's neighbour transformed from a tropical environment to a frigid desert.
(6) Having an accurate measurement of the Martian atmosphere also clears up some confusion over the origin of a group of meteorites on Earth, that were assumed to have originated from Mars based on measurements of trapped gases within them, but their identity could not be confirmed without the hard data provided by these results.
(7) A sample of the Murchison meteorite was extracted with D2O and in addition of 'free' amino acids, showing no deuterium incorporation, some amino acids showed the presence of deuterium suggesting either a 'precursor(s)' or hydrogen-deuterium exchange which require(s) formation of carbon-hydrogen bonds.
(8) First, grab an apron and get baking; the meteorite recipes can be found here .
(9) It was that moment when me and my colleagues from Ural Federal University's nanotech centre determined the meteorite's origin and the substance of the chunks which were collected not far from the hole in the ice," Grokhovsky said.
(10) Or it can be “to solve some mystery”, such as his trips to Guatemala and Belize, to uncover the fate of the Mayan civilisation, or Siberia, to learn about the Tunguska meteorite, thought to have created a blast as powerful as 1,000 Hiroshimas in 1908.
(11) "It is very hard to overestimate the importance of the meteorite's recovery from the lake.
(12) Meteorites, The Universe, Road to the Stars, Planet of Tempests, The Moon, et al.
(13) Researchers performed a battery of tests on the meteorite and, based on its chemical signature, confirmed it was blasted to Earth from Mars.
(14) "Unless he takes a tumble or is hit by a falling meteorite."
(15) "It's yet another piece of evidence which makes it more likely that life came to Earth on a Martian meteorite, rather than starting on this planet."
(16) It relies upon the expected El Nino which is currently 70~90% likely A major volcanic eruption or a giant meteorite could change this, otherwise 2015 is the one to watch.
(17) 1.1m page views 10) Meteorite slams into central Russia injuring 1,100 – live Friday 15 February 2013 "I was driving to work, it was quite dark, but it suddenly became as bright as if it was day.
(18) Most space rocks that fall to Earth as meteorites come from the asteroid belt, but a number can be traced to the moon and Mars.
(19) For example, it is estimated that a major meteorite impact, such as the one that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65m years ago, occurs on average every 100m years.
(20) Cut the edible meteorites in half so students can describe what they are like inside, but make sure they use technical vocabulary not culinary terms.